The unpublished manuscript "The Negro in Louisiana" is a work begun by the Dillard (University) Project in 1942, an arm of the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. After the dissolution of the unit, Marcus Christian maintained and edited the document in...

Turned and doweled Windsor chair on rockers with simple tablet crest. Seat has virtually no shaping. Rear stiles of single piece of wood shaped and joined to serpentine arms that dowel into thickest part of arm (rectangular in section here,...

Cast bronze girandole argand lamp with cruciform base. Flowers on top of each end protrude from beneath circular stem with applied paw-foot fluted pillars with scrolled capitols. Narrower cylindrical stem on top of base stem with two arms arcing...